First new Christmas decoration for this year
I have succumbed and ended up buying a wooden automaton music box soldier to go with my other collection of German wooden Toy soldiers all of which are music boxes but each of which plays a different tune. However they are not automatons. This new one is. There are strings at the back of the soldier which make the soldier move. His arms come up and down onto the drum, but his mouth also moves up and down as well. It also plays most appropriately the little drummer boy. The musical movement is in the base upon which the soldier stands. They have other ones available and the tunes and the movements are very different. One has a staff which he moves up and down as he leads the parade. They are all soldiers but all decorated slightly differently. It was about 16 years ago I came across reduced wooden and music box toy soldiers which should have been about £30 apiece in The Works - I think they were about £7 apiece then. Al...